Development Kits

PCB Development Kits are for all electronics engineers and ideal for the creative and driven pioneers in the engineering community to help them prototype their next design project. Their creativity needs a robust and flexible development platform and this need is fulfilled by the wealth of development kits that there are on offer, such as those that can be found at RS Components.

During the creation of industrial concepts, wearables and the Internet of Things and many more applications, making hardware technology accessible and device development a breeze is essential.

The development kit exists to make the prototyping of all of these devices easy and as cost-efficient as possible, driving your designs and concepts to production and to the market as fast as possible.

Cypress Semiconductor has recently announced EZ-PD Barrel Connector Replacement (BCR) Evaluation Kit that can be used to power devices that are originally powered through DC barrel connectors such as smart speakers, drones, modems, etc.

Stalwarts of DesignSpark may remember my occasional posts on ‘Bare-metal coding’ based on my project to create an embedded version of Forth for the Microchip dsPIC33 DSC device. Here I try it on a Clicker 2 board with the EP version of the chip.

Every electronics project nowadays seems to need a digital computer at its heart. The ‘Single Board Computer’ (SBC) is frequently offered as the solution. But what is an SBC and is it really the best choice to solve your digital problems?